Up you Nick

[Ixion]

Fair? HELL NO What can I do about it?

This is pure arithmetic.

If you have three bikes , that's roughly $1500 pa. Six bikes is worse!

If you don't register you risk a $200 fine. But of course you can get more than one fine in a year.

However, although you must license three bikes you can only ever ride one at a time.

Rego is not something the police (at present) tend to worry much about - it's a thing you get pinged for if you are stopped for something else. So, if you don't often park in places with parking wardens (I don't) , and you don't regularly get stopped by the cops for naughtiness (I don't) , then the only thing to worry about is the roadside checkpoints they run from time to time (not the booze bus ones, they don't check WoF even)

In my experience, that's at most once a year. But, say three times , as a worst case scenario. Three @ $200 a time is $600. You're $900 ahead.

Slight downside is that having an expired rego makes it harder to talk your way out of a minor infringment . But, there are a few things you can do to swing matters a bit more your way. For a start I put my WoF in a very conspicuous place on the front of the bike , and as I trickle up to the checkpoint I point to it. Cop sees current WoF and most of the time will wave you through.

Also, if you have multiple bikes, like as not one of them is your daily commuter,and that gets the majority of trips (maybe not majority of kilometres, but the risk of a checkpoint on a lonely country road is near zero). So, I register the Yamaha, which is my commuter, I reckon that takes care of half (at least) of the exposure. On that basis I reckon that the cost is $500 + one fine every two years, = $100 pa , total pa $600. Same saving, but like as not if I am stopped I'm good anyway. $900 a year better off for three bikes , $2400 for six!

It's all just arithmetic. Cost of rego'ing everything versus likely number of fines per year * $200

[Coldrider]

Oh wow cool. Got 3 spare mate?
LOL

ironically they were not on the counter, I had to ask for them, oh an MR27, what is that one for.....but not a conspiracy theory though,...yet.

[Mom]

My bike has never displayed a current registration sticker in the entire time we have owned it, oh, apart from when someone stuck it to the rear guard for me, I took it off. Usually it resides in my pants pocket, there is no holder you see. I also live rurally, and am unlikely to get pulled up in a random checkpoint. I understand that they are not so easy to avoid in the smoke. The main reason my rego is on hold is because I have been unable to ride for a few months, due to injury (non bike), I doubt it will come off hold anytime soon despite the fact that my foot is better.

I am happy to risk a ticket, should I be unlucky enough to get pulled over.

[SPman]

You're all bad people!
Oops - I have to rego. the 1300 this month....I'll just Epay the $225 for the year now............

[davereid]

Just done my second oil change on the 650 since my rego went on hold, so thats 6000km now without a ticket, including the entire run from here to the Burt Monroe rego-less. I'll pay the no-rego fine if I get it, but with 3 bikes, the odds and maths are currently in my favour.

If they change the fine, or introduce cameras that can ping rego numbers things might change.

Anyone got a plate and vin number for a kawasaki 250 ? might be time for a lower cc rating...

[tig99]

This is pure arithmetic.

If you have three bikes , that's roughly $1500 pa. Six bikes is worse!

If you don't register you risk a $200 fine. But of course you can get more than one fine in a year.

However, although you must license three bikes you can only ever ride one at a time.

Rego is not something the police (at present) tend to worry much about - it's a thing you get pinged for if you are stopped for something else. So, if you don't often park in places with parking wardens (I don't) , and you don't regularly get stopped by the cops for naughtiness (I don't) , then the only thing to worry about is the roadside checkpoints they run from time to time (not the booze bus ones, they don't check WoF even)

In my experience, that's at most once a year. But, say three times , as a worst case scenario. Three @ $200 a time is $600. You're $900 ahead.

Slight downside is that having an expired rego makes it harder to talk your way out of a minor infringment . But, there are a few things you can do to swing matters a bit more your way. For a start I put my WoF in a very conspicuous place on the front of the bike , and as I trickle up to the checkpoint I point to it. Cop sees current WoF and most of the time will wave you through.

Also, if you have multiple bikes, like as not one of them is your daily commuter,and that gets the majority of trips (maybe not majority of kilometres, but the risk of a checkpoint on a lonely country road is near zero). So, I register the Yamaha, which is my commuter, I reckon that takes care of half (at least) of the exposure. On that basis I reckon that the cost is $500 + one fine every two years, = $100 pa , total pa $600. Same saving, but like as not if I am stopped I'm good anyway. $900 a year better off for three bikes , $2400 for six!

It's all just arithmetic. Cost of rego'ing everything versus likely number of fines per year * $200

Another thing to consider if you go down the 'no registration road' is that if involved in accident, being unregisterd will give insurance companies the opportunity to deny a claim. I have three bikes one is a farm bike triumph tiger 900, the other two are registered and will be doing the MR27 thing. Pays your money, takes your choice.

[Coldrider]

Another thing to consider if you go down the 'no registration road' is that if involved in accident, being unregisterd will give insurance companies the opportunity to deny a claim. I have three bikes one is a farm bike triumph tiger 900, the other two are registered and will be doing the MR27 thing. Pays your money, takes your choice.

the no rego and insurance path is well covered on other threads, do a search.

[Spearfish]

You can legally ride on a "held" rego if riding to a WoF testing facility, just carry a list of rego points on your path, bit like riding to Hamilton for a hamburger (Auckland thing lol). Could be a problem after normal business hours tho but vtnz is open Sundays for an excuse.

[breakaway]

Oh wow cool. Got 3 spare mate?
LOL

https://transact.nzta.govt.nz/transa...ion/entry.aspx

Yes, it's free. And you don't even have to get off your ass.